Accession number
PML 76372
Creator
Besson, Jacques, Dauphinois.
Published
Donné à Orleans : [no printer/publisher], l'an mil cinq cens soixante-neuf, le vingt-septiéme iour de Iuin [27 June 1569]
Credit line
Paul Mellon,
Description
[12] p., 60 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (engravings) ; 41 cm
Notes
French t.p., privilege, dedication, note to readers and captions for ill. follow Latin and precede plates.
In Ad lectorem, Iacobus Endroetus du Cerceau is named as the artist responsible for the ill.
Later editions have title: Theatrum instrumentoru
In Ad lectorem, Iacobus Endroetus du Cerceau is named as the artist responsible for the ill.
Later editions have title: Theatrum instrumentoru
Binding
16th-century French calf, gold-tooled with a semis of fleurs-de-lis, frame of crowned, addorsed C's, and arabesque cornerpieces; on the upper cover the royal arms, on the lower cover the device of Charles IX (two columns, and the motto "Pietate et Justiti
Provenance
Charles IX, dedication copy, armorial binding and motto inscribed on title pages; De Lomes, unidentified inscription (front pastedown); unidentified inscription, abraded, partially visible under UV (title page); Constantin N. Radoulesco (d. about 1957), b
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